About us
The Open Certification Group is an independent initiative of the Austrian Computer Society for the promotion and certification of IT competence.
Goals
- Standardization of competence levels
- Increase in IT user knowledge
- Bridge the Digital Divide
Tasks of the Open Certification Group
- Development of international certification standards
- Establishing a network of authorised Test Centers
- Quality assurance with the partners
Benefits for the educational institution
- Certificate as benchmark for the institution’s own profile
- High quality of the certification guaranteed by experts from science and business
- Easy to put into practice
- Joint network events
- Co-ordinated marketing
Benefits for the graduates
- Comprehensive IT knowledge and skills
- Comparable proof of skills
- International qualification
- Better job prospects and job mobility
Benefits for employers
- Comparable standard of job applications
- Staff’s continued educational level becomes measurable
- Increase in productivity – reduction of costs (efficiently used working time)
